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Finzi / Holst / Williams - Sirens' Song

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Format: CD
Label: CORO
Rel. Date: 09/01/2023
UPC: 828021619823

Sirens' Song
Artist: Finzi / Holst / Williams
Format: CD
New: In Stock $20.99
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What would singing be without words? When you combine wonderful poetry with exquisite music, the result is magical. In a rare break from the sacred collections they are famed for, this album from The Sixteen features a whole programme of secular music devoted to English partsongs. From Stanford's cycle of Eight Partsongs based on the sparing yet infectious poetry of Mary Elizabeth Coleridge to Bridges' lyrically descriptive writing in Finzi's Seven Poems of Robert Bridges and Imogen Holst's six idyllic partsongs Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow using verses by John Keats, each setting captures the mood of the poem brilliantly.
        
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